At an American football stadium turned into a COVID-19 vaccination centre, a woman is positively giddy after getting her first shot. “I feel overjoyed,” Liana Loewus said as she stood next to a sign reading “Today we are offering Pfizer” and hundreds of people waited in line, as she did, outside M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Loewus said she has not felt this happy in many months. “It’s been a year waiting for this moment,” the 38-year-old told AFP. The 70,000 seat stadium is one of many makeshift vaccination centres hastily set up to try to meet President Joe Biden’s new goal of 200 million vaccinations in his first 100 days in office, double his previous objective. At the Baltimore arena, soldiers carefully oversee the operation, pointing people in the right direction as they queue up in the hallways of a stadium whose stands have been empty for months. After registering and riding an escalator up to a different level, people proceed to small individual tables. With hardly time to take a selfie, they show their ID and are jabbed in the arm with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. ‘It hit home’ But there is a sense of history being made, and emotions are riding high. One nurse said...
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